This notebook walks you through one of the most popular Udacity projects across machine learning and artificial intellegence nanodegree programs. The goal is to classify images of dogs according to their breed.
If you are looking for a more guided capstone project related to deep learning and convolutional neural networks, this might be just it. Notice that even if you follow the notebook to creating your classifier, you must still create a blog post or deploy an application to fulfill the requirements of the capstone project.
Also notice, you may be able to use only parts of this notebook (for example certain coding portions or the data) without completing all parts and still meet all requirements of the capstone project.
In this notebook, some template code has already been provided for you, and you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully complete this project. You will not need to modify the included code beyond what is requested. Sections that begin with '(IMPLEMENTATION)' in the header indicate that the following block of code will require additional functionality which you must provide. Instructions will be provided for each section, and the specifics of the implementation are marked in the code block with a 'TODO' statement. Please be sure to read the instructions carefully!
In addition to implementing code, there will be questions that you must answer which relate to the project and your implementation. Each section where you will answer a question is preceded by a 'Question X' header. Carefully read each question and provide thorough answers in the following text boxes that begin with 'Answer:'. Your project submission will be evaluated based on your answers to each of the questions and the implementation you provide.
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The rubric contains optional "Stand Out Suggestions" for enhancing the project beyond the minimum requirements. If you decide to pursue the "Stand Out Suggestions", you should include the code in this IPython notebook.
In this notebook, you will make the first steps towards developing an algorithm that could be used as part of a mobile or web app. At the end of this project, your code will accept any user-supplied image as input. If a dog is detected in the image, it will provide an estimate of the dog's breed. If a human is detected, it will provide an estimate of the dog breed that is most resembling. The image below displays potential sample output of your finished project (... but we expect that each student's algorithm will behave differently!).

In this real-world setting, you will need to piece together a series of models to perform different tasks; for instance, the algorithm that detects humans in an image will be different from the CNN that infers dog breed. There are many points of possible failure, and no perfect algorithm exists. Your imperfect solution will nonetheless create a fun user experience!
We break the notebook into separate steps. Feel free to use the links below to navigate the notebook.
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of dog images. We populate a few variables through the use of the load_files function from the scikit-learn library:
train_files, valid_files, test_files - numpy arrays containing file paths to imagestrain_targets, valid_targets, test_targets - numpy arrays containing onehot-encoded classification labels dog_names - list of string-valued dog breed names for translating labelsfrom sklearn.datasets import load_files
from keras.utils import np_utils
import numpy as np
from glob import glob
# define function to load train, test, and validation datasets
def load_dataset(path):
data = load_files(path)
dog_files = np.array(data['filenames'])
dog_targets = np_utils.to_categorical(np.array(data['target']), 133)
return dog_files, dog_targets
# load train, test, and validation datasets
train_files, train_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/train')
valid_files, valid_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/valid')
test_files, test_targets = load_dataset('../../../data/dog_images/test')
# load list of dog names
dog_names = [item[20:-1] for item in sorted(glob("../../../data/dog_images/train/*/"))]
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total dog categories.' % len(dog_names))
print('There are %s total dog images.\n' % len(np.hstack([train_files, valid_files, test_files])))
print('There are %d training dog images.' % len(train_files))
print('There are %d validation dog images.' % len(valid_files))
print('There are %d test dog images.'% len(test_files))
In the code cell below, we import a dataset of human images, where the file paths are stored in the numpy array human_files.
import random
random.seed(8675309)
# load filenames in shuffled human dataset
human_files = np.array(glob("../../../data/lfw/*/*"))
random.shuffle(human_files)
# print statistics about the dataset
print('There are %d total human images.' % len(human_files))
We use OpenCV's implementation of Haar feature-based cascade classifiers to detect human faces in images. OpenCV provides many pre-trained face detectors, stored as XML files on github. We have downloaded one of these detectors and stored it in the haarcascades directory.
In the next code cell, we demonstrate how to use this detector to find human faces in a sample image.
import cv2
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
# extract pre-trained face detector
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_alt.xml')
# load color (BGR) image
img = cv2.imread(human_files[5])
# convert BGR image to grayscale
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
# find faces in image
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
# print number of faces detected in the image
print('Number of faces detected:', len(faces))
# get bounding box for each detected face
for (x,y,w,h) in faces:
# add bounding box to color image
cv2.rectangle(img,(x,y),(x+w,y+h),(255,100,0),3)
# convert BGR image to RGB for plotting
cv_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
# display the image, along with bounding box
plt.imshow(cv_rgb)
plt.show()
Before using any of the face detectors, it is standard procedure to convert the images to grayscale. The detectMultiScale function executes the classifier stored in face_cascade and takes the grayscale image as a parameter.
In the above code, faces is a numpy array of detected faces, where each row corresponds to a detected face. Each detected face is a 1D array with four entries that specifies the bounding box of the detected face. The first two entries in the array (extracted in the above code as x and y) specify the horizontal and vertical positions of the top left corner of the bounding box. The last two entries in the array (extracted here as w and h) specify the width and height of the box.
We can use this procedure to write a function that returns True if a human face is detected in an image and False otherwise. This function, aptly named face_detector, takes a string-valued file path to an image as input and appears in the code block below.
# returns "True" if face is detected in image stored at img_path
def face_detector(img_path): '''
INPUT:
img_path - image path for the image that should be checked for a human face
OUTPUT:
returns "True" in case a human face was detected in the given image
'''
img = cv2.imread(img_path)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray)
return len(faces) > 0
Question 1: Use the code cell below to test the performance of the face_detector function.
human_files have a detected human face? dog_files have a detected human face? Ideally, we would like 100% of human images with a detected face and 0% of dog images with a detected face. You will see that our algorithm falls short of this goal, but still gives acceptable performance. We extract the file paths for the first 100 images from each of the datasets and store them in the numpy arrays human_files_short and dog_files_short.
Answer:
100% of the human faces were correctly identified as human faces.
11% of the dog faces were also passed as human faces.
human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = train_files[:100]
# Do NOT modify the code above this line.
## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
truth_humans = []
for i in range(len(human_files_short)):
truth_humans.append(face_detector(human_files_short[i]))
truth_humans
sum(1 for x in truth_humans if x)
truth_dogs = []
for i in range(len(dog_files_short)):
truth_dogs.append(face_detector(dog_files_short[i]))
truth_dogs[:15]
sum(1 for x in truth_dogs if x)
So, 100% of the human faces were correctly identified as human faces.
11% of the dog faces were also passed as human faces.
Question 2: This algorithmic choice necessitates that we communicate to the user that we accept human images only when they provide a clear view of a face (otherwise, we risk having unneccessarily frustrated users!). In your opinion, is this a reasonable expectation to pose on the user? If not, can you think of a way to detect humans in images that does not necessitate an image with a clearly presented face?
Answer: I think that it is a reasonable request to pose on users to let them know that they will get the best result out of this little experiment with a clear, front facing picture. Since most users will be very used to taking selfing all the time, they should be able to make this.
We suggest the face detector from OpenCV as a potential way to detect human images in your algorithm, but you are free to explore other approaches, especially approaches that make use of deep learning :). Please use the code cell below to design and test your own face detection algorithm. If you decide to pursue this optional task, report performance on each of the datasets.
## (Optional) TODO: Report the performance of another
## face detection algorithm on the LFW dataset
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
In this section, we use a pre-trained ResNet-50 model to detect dogs in images. Our first line of code downloads the ResNet-50 model, along with weights that have been trained on ImageNet, a very large, very popular dataset used for image classification and other vision tasks. ImageNet contains over 10 million URLs, each linking to an image containing an object from one of 1000 categories. Given an image, this pre-trained ResNet-50 model returns a prediction (derived from the available categories in ImageNet) for the object that is contained in the image.
from keras.applications.resnet50 import ResNet50
# define ResNet50 model
ResNet50_model = ResNet50(weights='imagenet')
When using TensorFlow as backend, Keras CNNs require a 4D array (which we'll also refer to as a 4D tensor) as input, with shape
$$ (\text{nb_samples}, \text{rows}, \text{columns}, \text{channels}), $$where nb_samples corresponds to the total number of images (or samples), and rows, columns, and channels correspond to the number of rows, columns, and channels for each image, respectively.
The path_to_tensor function below takes a string-valued file path to a color image as input and returns a 4D tensor suitable for supplying to a Keras CNN. The function first loads the image and resizes it to a square image that is $224 \times 224$ pixels. Next, the image is converted to an array, which is then resized to a 4D tensor. In this case, since we are working with color images, each image has three channels. Likewise, since we are processing a single image (or sample), the returned tensor will always have shape
The paths_to_tensor function takes a numpy array of string-valued image paths as input and returns a 4D tensor with shape
Here, nb_samples is the number of samples, or number of images, in the supplied array of image paths. It is best to think of nb_samples as the number of 3D tensors (where each 3D tensor corresponds to a different image) in your dataset!
from keras.preprocessing import image
from tqdm import tqdm
def path_to_tensor(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path for the image that should be transformed into a 4D tensor
OUTPUT:
returns a 4D tensor of the image with shape (1,224,224,3)
'''
# loads RGB image as PIL.Image.Image type
img = image.load_img(img_path, target_size=(224, 224))
# convert PIL.Image.Image type to 3D tensor with shape (224, 224, 3)
x = image.img_to_array(img)
# convert 3D tensor to 4D tensor with shape (1, 224, 224, 3) and return 4D tensor
return np.expand_dims(x, axis=0)
def paths_to_tensor(img_paths):
'''
INPUT:
img_paths - list of image paths to be transformed into a 4D tensors
OUTPUT:
returns a list of 4D tensor of the images
'''
list_of_tensors = [path_to_tensor(img_path) for img_path in tqdm(img_paths)]
return np.vstack(list_of_tensors)
Getting the 4D tensor ready for ResNet-50, and for any other pre-trained model in Keras, requires some additional processing. First, the RGB image is converted to BGR by reordering the channels. All pre-trained models have the additional normalization step that the mean pixel (expressed in RGB as $[103.939, 116.779, 123.68]$ and calculated from all pixels in all images in ImageNet) must be subtracted from every pixel in each image. This is implemented in the imported function preprocess_input. If you're curious, you can check the code for preprocess_input here.
Now that we have a way to format our image for supplying to ResNet-50, we are now ready to use the model to extract the predictions. This is accomplished with the predict method, which returns an array whose $i$-th entry is the model's predicted probability that the image belongs to the $i$-th ImageNet category. This is implemented in the ResNet50_predict_labels function below.
By taking the argmax of the predicted probability vector, we obtain an integer corresponding to the model's predicted object class, which we can identify with an object category through the use of this dictionary.
from keras.applications.resnet50 import preprocess_input, decode_predictions
def ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path
OUTPUT:
returns a prediction vector for the image located at img_path
'''
img = preprocess_input(path_to_tensor(img_path))
return np.argmax(ResNet50_model.predict(img))
While looking at the dictionary, you will notice that the categories corresponding to dogs appear in an uninterrupted sequence and correspond to dictionary keys 151-268, inclusive, to include all categories from 'Chihuahua' to 'Mexican hairless'. Thus, in order to check to see if an image is predicted to contain a dog by the pre-trained ResNet-50 model, we need only check if the ResNet50_predict_labels function above returns a value between 151 and 268 (inclusive).
We use these ideas to complete the dog_detector function below, which returns True if a dog is detected in an image (and False if not).
### returns "True" if a dog is detected in the image stored at img_path
def dog_detector(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path
OUTPUT:
returns "True" in case a dog was predicted by ResNet50 and "False" otherwise
'''
prediction = ResNet50_predict_labels(img_path)
return ((prediction <= 268) & (prediction >= 151))
Question 3: Use the code cell below to test the performance of your dog_detector function.
human_files_short have a detected dog? dog_files_short have a detected dog?Answer:
0% of the human faces were identified as dogs.
100% of the dogs have been identified as dogs.
This is an really good result, as every picture was classified correctly.
### TODO: Test the performance of the dog_detector function
### on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
human_files_short = human_files[:100]
dog_files_short = train_files[:100]
# Do NOT modify the code above this line.
## TODO: Test the performance of the face_detector algorithm
## on the images in human_files_short and dog_files_short.
truth_humans = []
for i in range(len(human_files_short)):
truth_humans.append(dog_detector(human_files_short[i]))
truth_humans[:15]
sum(1 for x in truth_humans if x)
truth_dogs = []
for i in range(len(dog_files_short)):
truth_dogs.append(dog_detector(dog_files_short[i]))
truth_dogs[:15]
sum(1 for x in truth_dogs if x)
So, 0% of the human faces were identified as dogs.
And: 100% of the dogs have been identified as dogs.
This is an extremely good result, as every picture was classified correctly.
Now that we have functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, we need a way to predict breed from images. In this step, you will create a CNN that classifies dog breeds. You must create your CNN from scratch (so, you can't use transfer learning yet!), and you must attain a test accuracy of at least 1%. In Step 5 of this notebook, you will have the opportunity to use transfer learning to create a CNN that attains greatly improved accuracy.
Be careful with adding too many trainable layers! More parameters means longer training, which means you are more likely to need a GPU to accelerate the training process. Thankfully, Keras provides a handy estimate of the time that each epoch is likely to take; you can extrapolate this estimate to figure out how long it will take for your algorithm to train.
We mention that the task of assigning breed to dogs from images is considered exceptionally challenging. To see why, consider that even a human would have great difficulty in distinguishing between a Brittany and a Welsh Springer Spaniel.
| Brittany | Welsh Springer Spaniel |
|---|---|
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It is not difficult to find other dog breed pairs with minimal inter-class variation (for instance, Curly-Coated Retrievers and American Water Spaniels).
| Curly-Coated Retriever | American Water Spaniel |
|---|---|
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Likewise, recall that labradors come in yellow, chocolate, and black. Your vision-based algorithm will have to conquer this high intra-class variation to determine how to classify all of these different shades as the same breed.
| Yellow Labrador | Chocolate Labrador | Black Labrador |
|---|---|---|
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We also mention that random chance presents an exceptionally low bar: setting aside the fact that the classes are slightly imabalanced, a random guess will provide a correct answer roughly 1 in 133 times, which corresponds to an accuracy of less than 1%.
Remember that the practice is far ahead of the theory in deep learning. Experiment with many different architectures, and trust your intuition. And, of course, have fun!
We rescale the images by dividing every pixel in every image by 255.
from PIL import ImageFile
ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
# pre-process the data for Keras
train_tensors = paths_to_tensor(train_files).astype('float32')/255
valid_tensors = paths_to_tensor(valid_files).astype('float32')/255
test_tensors = paths_to_tensor(test_files).astype('float32')/255
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
model.summary()
We have imported some Python modules to get you started, but feel free to import as many modules as you need. If you end up getting stuck, here's a hint that specifies a model that trains relatively fast on CPU and attains >1% test accuracy in 5 epochs:

Question 4: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. If you chose to use the hinted architecture above, describe why you think that CNN architecture should work well for the image classification task.
Answer: Convolutional Networks are often used for image recognition. They rely heavily on feature reduction / edge detection. This helps a lot to reduce training times. In a more traditional, perceptron based Neural Network, the layers are usually "full" layers. So the more sparse layers resulting from the concepts of convolutional networks, show two very positive effects:
I added some additional Dropout-Layers, to further reduce tendencies of overfitting.
from keras.layers import Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, GlobalAveragePooling2D
from keras.layers import Dropout, Flatten, Dense
from keras.models import Sequential
model = Sequential()
### TODO: Define your architecture.
model.add(Conv2D(filters=16, kernel_size=2, padding='valid', activation='relu', input_shape=(224,224,3)))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.15))
model.add(Conv2D(32, kernel_size=(2, 2), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.1))
model.add(Conv2D(64, kernel_size=(2, 2), activation='relu'))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2, 2), strides=(2, 2)))
model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D())
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
model.summary()
model.compile(optimizer='rmsprop', loss='categorical_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
DON'T START - kinda slow and not needed later
from keras.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint
### TODO: specify the number of epochs that you would like to use to train the model.
epochs = 1000
### Do NOT modify the code below this line.
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
model.fit(train_tensors, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_tensors, valid_targets),
epochs=epochs, batch_size=20, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.from_scratch.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 1%.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
dog_breed_predictions = [np.argmax(model.predict(np.expand_dims(tensor, axis=0))) for tensor in test_tensors]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(dog_breed_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(dog_breed_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogVGG16Data.npz')
train_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_VGG16 = bottleneck_features['test']
The model uses the the pre-trained VGG-16 model as a fixed feature extractor, where the last convolutional output of VGG-16 is fed as input to our model. We only add a global average pooling layer and a fully connected layer, where the latter contains one node for each dog category and is equipped with a softmax.
VGG16_model = Sequential()
VGG16_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape=train_VGG16.shape[1:]))
VGG16_model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
VGG16_model.summary()
VGG16_model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop', metrics=['accuracy'])
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
VGG16_model.fit(train_VGG16, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_VGG16, valid_targets),
epochs=20, batch_size=20, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
VGG16_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.VGG16.hdf5')
Now, we can use the CNN to test how well it identifies breed within our test dataset of dog images. We print the test accuracy below.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
VGG16_predictions = [np.argmax(VGG16_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis=0))) for feature in test_VGG16]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(VGG16_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(VGG16_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
from extract_bottleneck_features import *
def VGG16_predict_breed(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path
OUTPUT:
returns predicted dog breeds
'''
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_VGG16(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = VGG16_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)]
You will now use transfer learning to create a CNN that can identify dog breed from images. Your CNN must attain at least 60% accuracy on the test set.
In Step 4, we used transfer learning to create a CNN using VGG-16 bottleneck features. In this section, you must use the bottleneck features from a different pre-trained model. To make things easier for you, we have pre-computed the features for all of the networks that are currently available in Keras:
The files are encoded as such:
Dog{network}Data.npz
where {network}, in the above filename, can be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception. Pick one of the above architectures, download the corresponding bottleneck features, and store the downloaded file in the bottleneck_features/ folder in the repository.
In the code block below, extract the bottleneck features corresponding to the train, test, and validation sets by running the following:
bottleneck_features = np.load('bottleneck_features/Dog{network}Data.npz')
train_{network} = bottleneck_features['train']
valid_{network} = bottleneck_features['valid']
test_{network} = bottleneck_features['test']
### TODO: Obtain bottleneck features from another pre-trained CNN.
bottleneck_features_rn = np.load('bottleneck_features/DogResnet50Data.npz')
train_resnet50 = bottleneck_features_rn['train']
valid_resnet50 = bottleneck_features_rn['valid']
test_resnet50 = bottleneck_features_rn['test']
Create a CNN to classify dog breed. At the end of your code cell block, summarize the layers of your model by executing the line:
<your model's name>.summary()
Question 5: Outline the steps you took to get to your final CNN architecture and your reasoning at each step. Describe why you think the architecture is suitable for the current problem.
Answer: For the final CNN architecture, we use transfer learning. As the features are already pretrained, we can only add a Global Average Pooling 2D - Layer and a Dense Layer.
This takes full advantage of the pre-trained model and keeps it really quick.
resnet50_model = Sequential()
resnet50_model.add(GlobalAveragePooling2D(input_shape=train_resnet50.shape[1:]))
resnet50_model.add(Dense(133, activation='softmax'))
resnet50_model.summary()
### TODO: Compile the model.
resnet50_model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='rmsprop', metrics=['accuracy'])
Train your model in the code cell below. Use model checkpointing to save the model that attains the best validation loss.
You are welcome to augment the training data, but this is not a requirement.
### TODO: Train the model.
checkpointer = ModelCheckpoint(filepath='saved_models/weights.best.resnet50.hdf5',
verbose=1, save_best_only=True)
resnet50_model.fit(train_resnet50, train_targets,
validation_data=(valid_resnet50, valid_targets),
epochs=20, batch_size=20, callbacks=[checkpointer], verbose=1)
### TODO: Load the model weights with the best validation loss.
resnet50_model.load_weights('saved_models/weights.best.resnet50.hdf5')
Try out your model on the test dataset of dog images. Ensure that your test accuracy is greater than 60%.
### TODO: Calculate classification accuracy on the test dataset.
# get index of predicted dog breed for each image in test set
resnet50_predictions = [np.argmax(resnet50_model.predict(np.expand_dims(feature, axis=0))) for feature in test_resnet50]
# report test accuracy
test_accuracy = 100*np.sum(np.array(resnet50_predictions)==np.argmax(test_targets, axis=1))/len(resnet50_predictions)
print('Test accuracy: %.4f%%' % test_accuracy)
Write a function that takes an image path as input and returns the dog breed (Affenpinscher, Afghan_hound, etc) that is predicted by your model.
Similar to the analogous function in Step 5, your function should have three steps:
dog_names array defined in Step 0 of this notebook to return the corresponding breed.The functions to extract the bottleneck features can be found in extract_bottleneck_features.py, and they have been imported in an earlier code cell. To obtain the bottleneck features corresponding to your chosen CNN architecture, you need to use the function
extract_{network}
where {network}, in the above filename, should be one of VGG19, Resnet50, InceptionV3, or Xception.
dog_names[:3]
dog_names[-3:]
### TODO: Write a function that takes a path to an image as input
### and returns the dog breed that is predicted by the model.
from extract_bottleneck_features import extract_Resnet50
def ResNet50_predict_breed(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path
OUTPUT:
returns the name of the predicted dog breed found in the image
'''
# extract bottleneck features
bottleneck_feature = extract_Resnet50(path_to_tensor(img_path))
# obtain predicted vector
predicted_vector = resnet50_model.predict(bottleneck_feature)
# return dog breed that is predicted by the model
return dog_names[np.argmax(predicted_vector)][15:]
dog_files_short[2]
ResNet50_predict_breed(dog_files_short[2])
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
img = mpimg.imread(dog_files_short[2])
imgplot = plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()
Write an algorithm that accepts a file path to an image and first determines whether the image contains a human, dog, or neither. Then,
You are welcome to write your own functions for detecting humans and dogs in images, but feel free to use the face_detector and dog_detector functions developed above. You are required to use your CNN from Step 5 to predict dog breed.
A sample image and output for our algorithm is provided below, but feel free to design your own user experience!

This photo looks like an Afghan Hound.
### TODO: Write your algorithm.
### Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
def image_breed_detector(img_path):
'''
INPUT:
img_path - image path
Description:
This function will first check if a dog is present in the picture.
If so, it will output the predicted breed.
If no dog was detected, the function will check for a human face.
If a human face is found, it will output a prediction for a resembling dog breed.
In case no dog or human face are detected, an error message gets diplayed.
In any case, the given image will be presented back to the user as a reference.
'''
# dog_detector(img_path) is True if there is a dog in the picture, and false if not
if dog_detector(img_path):
dog_breed = ResNet50_predict_breed(img_path)
print(f"This picture shows a {dog_breed}.")
# since the picture does not appear to show a dog, let's see if it shows a human face
# face_detector(img_path)
# if a human face got detected in the picture, and false if not
elif face_detector(img_path):
dog_breed = ResNet50_predict_breed(img_path)
print(f"This picture resembles a {dog_breed}.")
else:
print("Please choose an image of a human or a dog.")
img = mpimg.imread(img_path)
imgplot = plt.imshow(img)
plt.show()
In this section, you will take your new algorithm for a spin! What kind of dog does the algorithm think that you look like? If you have a dog, does it predict your dog's breed accurately? If you have a cat, does it mistakenly think that your cat is a dog?
Test your algorithm at least six images on your computer. Feel free to use any images you like. Use at least two human and two dog images.
Question 6: Is the output better than you expected :) ? Or worse :( ? Provide at least three possible points of improvement for your algorithm.
Answer: The output is actually better than what I expected.
There are no false positives in all the cat pictures. Not one cat was identified as a dog or a human face.
In case of two different species being present in one of the pictures (like the one with a dog and the cat or the one with the dog and the man), the algorithm identified the dog both times. I find this somewhat impressive, since the dog in the dog and cat picture is a lesser known breed that is not completely in the picture and the photo only shows the side of the dog. In the picture with a man and a dog, the Dog Detector detects the dog, so that the face won't be detected. I don't think that this is a Dachshund, but the way the dogs face gets compressed in the picture, the face does resemble some of those stretched face features of a Dachshund.
Improvements:
In this picture a human, a cat, and 3 dogs were found.
In case of a human present in the picture, it would also tell the closest dog breed resemblance as well as the closest cat breed resemblance.
## TODO: Execute your algorithm from Step 6 on
## at least 6 images on your computer.
## Feel free to use as many code cells as needed.
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-forest_greens_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-front_face_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-looking_up_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-night_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-on_meadow_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-street_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat-thinking_pose_640.jpg")
These replies are correct, since these pictures show cats, not humans or dogs.
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/cat_and_dog_640.jpg")
This picture is somewhat tricky, since it shows a cat and a dog.
The dog in the picture could be a silky terrier (this was the first prediction run) (it's very hairy, too), but I don't know. I don't think that it is a Papillon (second prediction run).
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/dog-berner_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/dog-corgi_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/dog-maltese_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/dog-puppy_beagle_640.jpg")
I choose this picture, because I was curious if this dog could be detected despite the big tennis ball in front of it's face and the puppy stage.
Apparently, the "Dog Detector" incorrectly says that this is not a dog.
It gets correctly classified as a beagle by the ResNet50-prediction, though.
ResNet50_predict_breed("./pixabay-pics/dog-puppy_beagle_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/dog-puppy_unknown_640.jpg")
I think that this is not a Labrador (that was the first prediction run), but it's a little bit tough to tell, since this is a picture of a puppy.
I am also not sure about the Kuvasz (result of the second prediction run).
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-and-dog_640.jpg")
This picture is of a man with his dog. The Dog Detector detects the dog, so that the face won't be detected.
I don't think that this is a Dachshund, but the way the dogs face gets compressed in the picture, the face does resemble some of those stretched face features of a Dachshund.
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human_example_afghan.jpg")
I tried using your example picture from the explanation above, and I got a different resembling breed back.
Looking at some google images of both breeds, I do think that this picture much more closely resembles a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and not so much an Afghan.
On the second prediction run, the result was "English Toy Spaniel". To me, those two types of Spaniel look really close - I guess my algorithm is only sure that this must be a Spaniel :-).
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-street_640.jpg")
I found that the Human Face Detector is really a Human Face detector.
This picture clearly has a human in it, but the face is not very clear.
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-curly_reddish_blond_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-long_brown_straight_hair_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human_hair_640.jpg")
This is quite interesting:
At the first prediction run, all three female faces were detected as resembling beagles.
On the second prediction run, they now all three converted to English Toy or English Springer Spaniels :-).
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-model_640.jpg")
image_breed_detector("./pixabay-pics/human-umbrella_640.jpg")
The results for the human images are interesting.
So, women look like Beagles (or English Toy / Springer Spaniels after the second prediction run)?
A man with a clean haircut looks like a silky terrier (or like an english springer spaniel on the second run)?
The facial features of the guy holding an umbrella somewhat resemble those of a Dogue de Bordeaux.